I am always looking for ways to improve my joinery and try different methods eg. biscuits, dowels, mortice and tenon, Kreg screws, loose tenons etc. Hopefully one day I will settle down to one method and I can have a workshop sale of the redundant tools.

The latest thing that has caught my eye is the Dowelmax. I don't need one but......

Apart from a little tidying up the butchers block is now finished and ready for collection. Because it is made from 160 year old timber, complete with knots, rust stains from iron nails, splits and cracks etc. it might be described as having plen...

I recently acquired a slab of Scots Pine and decided to make two gtable tops out of it. The tops can be used as butchers block chopping boards, coffee table tops or even garden table or bench tops.
The pictures show the sequence of work and t...

I recently got a 6 foot length of sycamore which I cut in half in order to make a chopping block/table 3 foot by 2foot.
Even after cutting in half the boards were so badly twisted that I had to split them length ways in order to flatten...

Some time ago I thought I had finished making several peices of furniture from 160 year old church pews. Recently the customer came back and asked if I could salvage enough timber to make a matching bookcase.
With a great deal of difficult...

Having just recycled four 160 year old 12 foot church pews and manufactured the furniture shown here I am in a position to comment on the process from an operational and financial point of view which i hope may help LJ’s involved in simi...